A great moment for a President, a VP & a future President!

PEACE!

How could anybody forget this ...so proud of our democratic party,vote Hillary 2016 let it be a third term.......

but then I think about other holidays like Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, etc., which have become nothing more than big sales days. I think the best way to increase voting is weekend voting, extended hours at polling places, etc.

Some people work 12 hour days with weekend sometime its hard for them to vote when shifts could be 6am to 6pm like Sunday to Wed.or 7am to 7pm......some state polls are closed by time they get out of work and beat the traffic depending how close you are to home from your job....

even if you take leave without pay

Some that can have to also take a half of a vacation day just to vote..... or unpaid as you said...just to vote...Tue is a bad day......

As a bill, this could apply only to federal employees; there are no National Holidays in the US, only federal holidays.

What could and SHOULD do is allow voting over several days, or maybe even a week. That would be the best way to make it easier to vote, along with voting by mail.

Thank you, Iamaartist!

The whole reason for Election Day being when it is revolves around the needs of farmers. A farmer with no modern technological aids - tractors, automatic sprinklers, herbicides - can't just quit farming for three or four days to ride into town to vote, or for a few weeks to go to the national capital to be an elector. But after the harvest is in and the plow is finally polished up and ready for next spring, he can.

In 2016, we have motor vehicles, airline service, computers, video linkups...IOW we have no NEED to vote in November. Why do we? I can tell you in one word: TRADITION! (One that's engraved into the Constitution, but it's still a tradition.)

Rather than having a National Voting Holiday (which would turn into another shopping day, and keep the people who work retail from getting to the polls), let's declare the first weekend after the Fourth of July to be Voting Weekend. Everyone's feeling patriotic from the Fourth anyway, and voting is the most patriotic thing a person can do. So...let's combine 'em. There'll be a national primary - no fucking caucuses, primaries only - on the first weekend after the First of April (because voting on April Fools Day is bad, m'kay?). Everyone who wins the primary campaigns their ass off for three months. Everyone who wins the general, except the president, takes office on October 1. The president takes office two weeks later.

But let's go one better: NO MIDTERM ELECTIONS! Barring an Act of God - like the GOP doing another Contract on America - Congresscritters get reelected as many times as they want. Nope, in our New Electoral Plan Representatives serve four years per term and Senators eight. We'll split each state's Senate delegation into an "A" and a "B" senator - and every four years, one of them stands for reelection.